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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/doc-guide/sphinx.rst | 14 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst b/Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst index a7cb2afd7990..9c779bd7a751 100644 --- a/Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst +++ b/Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst @@ -1,3 +1,5 @@ +.. title:: Kernel-doc comments + =========================== Writing kernel-doc comments =========================== diff --git a/Documentation/doc-guide/sphinx.rst b/Documentation/doc-guide/sphinx.rst index 2ff1ab4158d4..1228b85f6f77 100644 --- a/Documentation/doc-guide/sphinx.rst +++ b/Documentation/doc-guide/sphinx.rst @@ -132,7 +132,8 @@ format-specific subdirectories under ``Documentation/output``. To generate documentation, Sphinx (``sphinx-build``) must obviously be installed. For prettier HTML output, the Read the Docs Sphinx theme (``sphinx_rtd_theme``) is used if available. For PDF output you'll also need -``XeLaTeX`` and ``convert(1)`` from ImageMagick (https://www.imagemagick.org). +``XeLaTeX`` and ``convert(1)`` from ImageMagick +(https://www.imagemagick.org).\ [#ink]_ All of these are widely available and packaged in distributions. To pass extra options to Sphinx, you can use the ``SPHINXOPTS`` make @@ -150,8 +151,19 @@ If the theme is not available, it will fall-back to the classic one. The Sphinx theme can be overridden by using the ``DOCS_THEME`` make variable. +There is another make variable ``SPHINXDIRS``, which is useful when test +building a subset of documentation. For example, you can build documents +under ``Documentation/doc-guide`` by running +``make SPHINXDIRS=doc-guide htmldocs``. +The documentation section of ``make help`` will show you the list of +subdirectories you can specify. + To remove the generated documentation, run ``make cleandocs``. +.. [#ink] Having ``inkscape(1)`` from Inkscape (https://inkscape.org) + as well would improve the quality of images embedded in PDF + documents, especially for kernel releases 5.18 and later. + Writing Documentation ===================== |